March 2010 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] LVM/MDADM and GRUB2
by Tobias Powalowski 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hi, has anyone succeeded in having /boot on a lvm volume, or a mdadm raid device, which grub2 can directly boot from it? If yes please give me some advice how to do it, i want to add full grub2 support to archboot setup and the docs are quite messy. I haven't found a way to do such a setup. Many thanks for any input. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] Rebuild list scripts
by Allan McRae 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hi, I know of at least three of us that have written rebuild list scripts. Can we get a common one into devtools or something? I posted one here a long time ago. See: http://allanmcrae.com/scripts/rebuildlist . There is also a script that tries (and fails) to give a rebuild order: http://allanmcrae.com/scripts/rebuildorder . It parses "pacman -Si <pkg>" to get deps so misses makedeps altogether... Or could we get something running on gerolde. It could be efficient and create a list of needed libraries for each package which is then updated via a cron job. Then generating a rebuild list would be a grep and could even be down automatically through the TODO list interface... Allan

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[arch-dev-public] gmp-5.0 rebuild list
by Allan McRae 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hi, I just added a rebuild list gmp-5.0 to the TODO lists. Note [community] needs scanned (libgmp.so). gmp-5.0 is labeled as a "performance release" while gmp-4.x is the "stable release". I still think upgrading to 5.0 is the Arch thing to do as "stable release" in this case means that the 4.x series is dead and all new features are in 5.0. This will not be happening for at least a week due to lack of time on my end to do the needed toolchain update/rebuild. Allan

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-general] [PATCH (dbscripts)] Fix permissions of incoming packages.
by Andrea Scarpino 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

On Wednesday 10 March 2010 01:12:22 Daenyth Blank wrote: > I doubt that running find is needed, just run chmod directly on the > files being uploaded by commitpkg, or have repo-add chmod the > individual files (it's running as root right?) I also think we should fix only the package that we add in ftp dir. my patch attached. -- Andrea

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh-5.3p1-4
by Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Release addressed the issue of startup scripts not properly checking pid files (FS#17138). Please sign off both architectures. --

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[arch-dev-public] wrong permission to packages
by Ionut Biru 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

On 03/09/2010 08:22 PM, Loui Chang wrote: > On Tue 09 Mar 2010 19:06 +0200, Ionut Biru wrote: >> can you change the permission of the file? >> i really don't know why it has such a permission. I know that we have >> a cron that fixes the permission but that package was upload >> yesterday and still has it wrong. >> >> Can you check if the cron is running? > > Yeah it's running. > > The cron script only specifies g+w so it could still remain unreadable > I'm not sure what the policy should be exactly, so maybe you can bring > that up on the ML but I've made that file world readable. > this is the second time when this happen and to be fair i don't know why. The cron has: /bin/chmod -R g+w $d/os/{any,i686,x86_64} maybe is better if we change it do chmod 664 by default? -- Ionut

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-general] Moving to pkg.tar.xz officially?
by Giovanni Scafora 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Il 09/03/2010 11:23, Allan McRae ha scritto: > Fixed in git: > http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=d85421ec Well, then do we should expect a new release of pacman? -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] groff 1.20.1-4 (1 for each arch)
by Paul Mattal 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

This is a bugfix for our site.tmac file. Nothing else is changed. Previously, if you ran: $ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/groff.1.gz | groff -man -Tps > foo.ps this you'd get an initial blank page in your output, and a warning: grops:<standard input>:6: X command without `ps:' tag ignored This was due to errant whitespace in our site.tmac file, as pointed out in: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15479 Please sign off by testing a few manpages and, if you really want to go all out, test the commandline above and see the improved result. - P

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-general] Moving to pkg.tar.xz officially?
by Giovanni Scafora 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Il 09/03/2010 11:23, Allan McRae ha scritto: > Why... namcap in testing works fine. Well, what about moving testing/namcap to extra? -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

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[arch-dev-public] Automating creation of i686 chroots on x86_64 systems with mkarchroot.
by Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

I've always thought the method of modifying your local mirrorlist, running mkarchroot, then reverting the changes to be more tedious than necessary for creation of i686 chroots on x86_64. My recent work with setting up a dedicated build server gave me plenty of time and an excuse to actually do something about it. As such, I've put together a little patch that allows specification of creation of an i686 chroot at runtime. When set, this flag will automatically modify your local mirrorlist, create the requested i686 chroot, then revert the changes to the mirrorlist file. I don't know if others would find this useful or not, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to post it.

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